History: National Movement 2
History: National Movement 2
History: National Movement 2
Who among the following is known as the Heroine of 1942 Quit India Movement ?
(a) Suchitra Kriplani
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Aruna Asaf Ali
(d) Dr. Annie Besant
Answer: Aruna Asaf Ali
The first to start a joint stock company trade with India were the
(a) Danish
(b) Portuguese
(c) Dutch
(d) French
Answer: Portuguese
Who amongst the following is associated with the Local Self-Government Act ?
(a) William Bentick
(b) Dalhousie
(c) Ripon
(d) Cornwallis
Answer: Ripon
Seeds of Indian participating in the Legislative Council of the Governor General of India are
embodied in the
(a) Indian Councils Act, 1892
(b) Government of India Act, 1919
(c) Indian Councils Act, 1861
(d) Indian Councils Act, 1909
Answer: Indian Councils Act, 1892
Which of the following is the most significant contribution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to
modern India ?
(a) His Presidentship of Indian National Congress
(b) His participating in Quit India Movement
(c) His role in Non-Cooperation Movement
(d) His achievement of integration of princely states
Answer: His achievement of integration of princely states
The theory of economic drain of India during British imperialism was propounded by
(a) R.C. Dutt
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) M.K. Gandhi
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
Who amongst the following was involved in the Alipore Bomb case ?
(a) S.N. Banerjea
(b) Aurobindo Ghosh
(c) Bipin Chandra Pal
(d) Jatin Das
Answer: Jatin Das
Which one of the following upheavals took place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt of 1857
?
(a) Indigo Disturbances
(b) Pabna Disturbances
(c) Sanyasi Rebellion
(d) Santal Rebellion
Answer: Indigo Disturbances
The affairs of East India Company came into the hands of the British Crown under
(a) Regulating Act
(b) Govt. of India Act
(c) Pitt's India Act
(d) Cabinet Mission Plan
Answer: Regulating Act
The most effective contribution made by Dadabhai Naoroji to the cause of Indian National
Movement was that he
(a) Brought the problems of Indians to the notice of the British
(b) Stressed the need for eradication of all the social evils before anything else.
(c) Interpreted the ancient Indian texts and restored the self - confidence of Indians.
(d) Exposed the economic exploitation of India by the British
Answer: Exposed the economic exploitation of India by the British
The Indians celebrated the Independence Day for the first time on
(a) 10984
(b) 18289
(c) 10959
(d) 17394
Answer: 10984
Abandonment of the policy of annexation and aggrandizement towards Indian states came
under the
(a) Indian Councils Act, 1861
(b) Indian Councils Act, 1909
(c) Indian Councils Act, 1892
(d) Government of India Act, 1858
Who was the first European to translate the Bhagwad Gita into English ?
(a) Sir Alexander Cunningham
(b) Charles Wilkins
(c) William Jones
(d) James Prinsep
Which of the following was a continous movement based on the philosophy of Gandhiji, and not
a specific movement ?
(a) Quit India Movement
(b) Civil Disobedience Movement
(c) Swadeshi Movement
(d) Non-Cooperation Movement
Who was the Chairman of Boundary Commission to define the boundries of the dominions
under the Indian Independence Act of 1947 ?
(a) Stafford Cripps
(b) Lord Mountbatten
(c) Cyril Radcliffe
(d) Lord Wavell
Answer: Delhi
Answer: 1920
Answer: Curzon
Who said, I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had?
(a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Annie Besant
(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Who was called by the British rulers as the leader of Indian unrest?
(a) Subhas Chandra Bose
(b) M.K. Gandhi
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Which of the following Acts was described by Jawaharlal Nehru as Charter of Slavery?
(a) Regulation Act
(b) Vernacular Press Act
(c) Government of India Act, 1919
(d) Government of India Act, 1935
The British Governor General, who formulated the policy of Subsidiary Alliance with regard to
Indian powers was
(a) Lord Wellesley
(b) Lord William Bentick
(c) Warren Hastings
(d) Lord Dalhousie
The first main British Parliament Act regarding East India Company's administration in India
was
(a) Rowlatt Act
(b) Pitts India Act
(c) Charter Act of 1913
(d) Regulation Act
Who was the first Indian to become the member of British Parliament ?
(a) D.N. Wacha
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) Badruddin Tyabji
(d) W.C. Banerjee
Who was the Governor General of India when the Indian National Congress was formed ?
(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Lord Mountbatten
(c) Lord Lytton
(d) Lord Dufferin
Regarding the freedom struggle, which of the following events is/are not true ?
(a) Morley-Minto reforms granted Muslim demands in 1909.
(b) Transfer of India's capital from Calcutta to Delhi was announced in 1910.
(c) Muslim League was founded in 1907.
(d) The partition of Bengal was done in 1905
Permanent Revenue System of Lord Cornwallis proved oppressive to the tenants because they
were
(a) Asked to pay under military pressure
(b) Exploited by the zamindars
(c) Forced to produce more
(d) Asked to pay yearly revenue in advance
Who among the following analysed the cause of the uprising of 1857 advocating a reconciliation
between the British and the Muslims ?
(a) Syed Ahmed Bardvi
(b) Shah Wali-Ullah
(c) Syed Ahmed Khan
(d) Syed Amir Ali
Answer: 1905
The British law which provoked Mahatma Gandhi to crusade for the Asians in South Africa was
called
(a) The Apartheid Act
(b) The Asiatic Registration Act
(c) The Blacks Registration Act
(d) The Coloured's Licence Act
When did the British Parliament pass the Indian Independence Bill ?
(a) 17393
(b) 17349
(c) 17218
(d) 17250
Answer: 17349
Answer: Nadiad
The founder of Boy Scouts and Civil Guides Movement in India was
(a) Robert Montgomery
(b) Baden Powell
(c) Charles Andrews
(d) Richard Temple
Answer: Bombay
Woods Despatch of 1854 resulted in the
(a) Establishment of educational system
(b) Establishment of Indian universities
(c) Introduction of Postal System
(d) Abolition of child marriage
Answer: The British tried to make them use the greased catridges.
From where did Mahatma Gandhi start his historic Dandi March ?
(a) Chauri Chaura
(b) Dandi
(c) Sabarmati Ashram
(d) Champaran
Except Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad, the integration of Indian states was completed in
(a) 17807
(b) 18598
(c) 18203
(d) 17380
Answer: 18203
Who among the following could not be captured by the British in 1857 ?
(a) Nana Saheb
(b) Tantia Tope
(c) Bahadur Shah II
(d) Mangal Pandey
Answer: Nana Saheb
The first national leader to attack the Salt Tax in Indian Legislature was
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Pherozeshah Mehta
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) G.K. Gokhale
The Indian states that were annexed by invokingthe Doctrine of Lapse included
(a) Mysore, Satara and Bhavnagar
(b) Jhansi, Nagpur and Satara
(c) Jhansi, Nagpur and Travancore
(d) Jhansi, Satara and Mysore
Answer: Surat
Answer: Vanguard
The office of the Secretary of State for India was created by the
(a) Morley - Minto Reforms, 1908
(b) Montague- Chelmsford Reforms
(c) Indian Councils Act, 1861
(d) Government of India Act, 1858
The Indian National Congress adopted the resolution of Poorna Swaraj (complete
independence) at its session held at
(a) Calcutta
(b) Allahabad
(c) Karachi
(d) Lahore
Answer: Lahore
After 1853, a very large amount of the British capital was invested in
(a) Coal mining
(b) Tea plantation
(c) Railways
(d) Jute mills
Answer: Railways
Answer: Non-violence was employed for the first time as an effective weapon of mass
movement.
Answer: 1889
Who among the following was a prominent officer of the Azad Hind Fauj ?
(a) Shah Nawaz Khan
(b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(c) Aruna Asaf Ali
(d) DR. M.A. Ansari
Which of the following revolutionary leaders organised an attack on the armoury of Chittagong ?
(a) Surya Sen
(b) C.R. Das
(c) Jatin Das
(d) Chandrashekhar Azad
Luckhnow Pact of 1916 is significant in the history of Indian National Movement because
(a) None of these
(b) It ended separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims.
(c) It decide India's non participating in World War I.
(d) Both the groups of Congress men settled their disputes
The title of Governor - General was changed to that of Viceroy in the year
(a) 1905 A.D.
(b) 1917 A.D.
(c) 1858 A.D.
(d) 1885 A.D.
What was the name of the periodical published by Mahatma Gandhi during his stay in South
Africa ?
(a) Afrikaner
(b) Indian Opinion
(c) India Gazette
(d) Navjivan
Who among the following first propounded the idea of basic education?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Dayanand Saraswati
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
What did Gandhiji do to practise the ideals of truth and non-violence in 1916 ?
(a) He started an all-India Satyagrahs.
(b) He founded Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad
(c) He founded the Gujarat Vidyapeeth.
(d) He joined the Indian National Congress.
The split between the extremists and the moderates took places in the sessions Indian National
Congress held at
(a) Bombay
(b) Surat
(c) Calcutta
(d) Lahore
Answer: Surat
General Dyer who was responsible for Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by
(a) Udham Singh
(b) Hasrat Mohani
(c) Sohan Singh Bhakna
(d) V.V.S. Iyer
The famous song Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram was sung during Dandi march by the renowed
musician
(a) Mallikarjun Mansur
(b) Onkar Nath Thakur
(c) Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit
(d) Digambar Vishnu Paluskar
The greatest evil that arose out of British policies with regard to Indian agriculture, was the
(a) Emergence of the money lenders
(b) None of these
(c) Transformation of the peasant cultivators into tenants at will.
(d) Improverishment of the peasantry
Before Delhi, where was the capital of India during the British India ?
(a) Lucknow
(b) Patna
(c) Bombay
(d) Calcutta
Answer: Calcutta
Answer: Sabarmati
Which Governor General abolished the system of dual government established by Robert Clive
and established the Company's control over Bengal ?
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Sir Charles Metacalfe
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Lord Cornwallis
Answer: Hijrat
The immediate cause for precipitation of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was
(a) Disparity in salaries of native sepoys and British soldiers
(b) The rumour of use of catridges greased with cow fat
(c) Spread of Christianity
(d) Doctrine of Lapse
The Viceroy upon whom a bomb was thrown but he did not change his attitude towards the
Indians, was
(a) Lord Chelmsford
(b) Lord Hardinge
(c) Warren Hastings
(d) Lord Curzon
Answer: Hardinge
The Separatist system of representation by various religious communities and other groups was
a prominent feature of the
(a) Government of India Act, 1919
(b) Indian Independence Act, 1947
(c) Government of India Act, 1935
(d) Indian Council Act, 1861
Answer: Government of India Act, 1935
The song Jana-Gana-Mana composed by Rabindranath Tagore, was first published in January
1912 under the title of
(a) None of these
(b) Bharat Vidhata
(c) Rashtra Jagrati
(d) Tatva Bodhini
Answer: 1940
The resolution to start the Quit India Movement was adopted by INC at its session held at
(a) Bombay
(b) Karachi
(c) Lahore
(d) Calcutta
Answer: Bombay
Answer: Deoband
Answer: 1861
By which law did the British Crown take over the power to rule over India from the East India
Company ?
(a) Magna Carta of Rights
(b) None of these
(c) Indian Councils Act, 1861
(d) Ilbert Bill
Who was responsible for the introduction of English as the official language in India ?
(a) Lord William Bentick
(b) Allan Octavian Hume
(c) Marquess of Dalhousie
(d) Sir Charles Wood
According to Mountbatten Plan, which of the following provinces was not to be included in the
Indian dominion ?
(a) Bihar
(b) Madras
(c) Bombay
(d) Sind
Answer: Sind
British merchants were willing to invest in railways and mines but not in cotton textiles
industry. The reason was
(a) Competition from the Indians
(b) Lack of Technology
(c) None of these
(d) Lack of raw material
Who commented that Cripps Mission was a post-dated cheque on a crashing bank ?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose
Which of the following upheavals took place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt of 1857 ?
(a) Pabna Disturbances
(b) Indigo Disturbances
(c) Sanyasi Rebellion
(d) Santal Rebellion
When was the first interim government formed during the British rule in India ?
(a) 17046
(b) 17015
(c) 16650
(d) 16681
Answer: 17046
The major difference between the moderates and the extremists in the Congress session of 1907
was regarding
(a) Satyagraha
(b) Swaraj
(c) Education
(d) Boycott
Answer: Swaraj
Who after the Constitutional deadlock due to the Quit India Movement, gave the call - Back of
Cripps ?
(a) C. Rajagopalachari
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: C. Rajagopalachari
Answer: 1875
Who declared: The only hope for India is from the masses. The upper classes are physically and
morally dead?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Swami Vivekananda
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: English
One of the most important activities of Mahatma Gandhi was the abolition of untouchability.
For this purpose he founded the All India Harijan Sangh in
(a) 1931
(b) 1932
(c) 1928
(d) 1930
Answer: 1932
Dadabhai Naoroji declared Swarajya as the aim of the INC at the Calcutta session in
(a) 1906
(b) 1905
(c) 1896
(d) 1901
Answer: 1906
Answer: Calcutta
In whose regime during the British period was Samachar Darpan the first vernacular paper,
published?
(a) Marquess of Hastings
(b) Lord Minto
(c) Lord Curzon
(d) Lord William Bentick
who among the following was not associated with Home Rule Movement ?
(a) Annie Besant
(b) M.A. Jinnah
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Bipin Chandra Pal
Who said the following of the Indian National Congress:A safety valve for the escape of great
and growing forces generated by our own actions was urgently needed?
(a) A.O. Hume
(b) Lord Curzon
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Lord Rippon
Who among the following was not one of the revolutionaries abroad who added a new
dimension to our struggle for freedom ?
(a) Chidambaran Pillai
(b) Raja Mahendra Pratap
(c) Har Dayal
(d) Maulana Barkatullah
Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother? who
had said these words ?
(a) Vivekananda
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Lala Rajpat Rai
Answer: Vivekananda
Which of the following Movements was started by the Indian National Congress during the
course of the Second World War and formed a part of our freedom struggle ?
(a) Quit India
(b) Swadeshi
(c) Home Rule
(d) Civil Disobedience
Who among the following was the leader of a number of anti-British revolts in Sambalpur ?
(a) Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi
(b) Surendra Sai
(c) Utirat Singh
(d) Kattabomman
Answer: Canning
Who was the Governor-General when the Great Mutiny of 1857 broke out ?
(a) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Hardinge
(c) Lord Canning
(d) Lord Ripon
Which one of the following was the most immediate factor for the spread of Swadeshi and
boycott of foreign goods during the first decade of the present century ?
(a) Curzon's Partition of Bengal
(b) Curzon's plan to curb the growing popularity of the Indian National Congress.
(c) Curzon's design to curtail the sphere of local self government
(d) Curzon's attempt to control the universities
Answer: Curzon's plan to curb the growing popularity of the Indian National Congress.
Indian National Congress split for the first time in its session at
(a) Surat
(b) Calcutta
(c) Allahabad
(d) Lahore
Answer: Surat
Answer: A joint electorate for the Scheduled castes with the Hindus was suggested.
Who among the following was a prominent officer of the Azad Hind Fauj ?
(a) DR. M.A. Ansari
(b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(c) Shah Nawaz Khan
(d) Aruna Asaf Ali
Who among the following was associated with the Home Rule Movement from Madras in 1922 ?
(a) C. Rajagopalachari
(b) T.Prakasham
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Annie Besant
Answer: T.Prakasham
The Indian National Congress represented the views of the microscopic minority in India. This
contention was maintained by
(a) Lord Curzon
(b) Lord Lansdowne
(c) Lord Dufferin
(d) Lord Ripon
Answer: Calcutta
Between which periods were the three Round Table Confrences held in London ?
(a) 1906-1909
(b) 1914-1942
(c) 1929-1931
(d) 1930-1932
Answer: 1930-1932
The setting up of a Constituent Assembly of India was not acceptable to the Indian National
Congress when it was proposed under the
(a) Mountbatten Plan
(b) Cabinet Mission Plan
(c) Cripps Plan
(d) Government of India Act, 1935
Answer: Cripps Plan
The Dual Government introduced by Robert Clive in Bengal was a failure because
(a) He was not a good administrator.
(b) Local people rose against Clive.
(c) Power was divorced from responsibility.
(d) The home government did not encourage it.
Who among the following was responsible for the revival of Hinduism in the 19th century ?
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Swami Dayananda
(d) Guru Shankaracharya
Who amongst the following Englishmen was fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa ?
(a) None of these
(b) Polak
(c) C.F. Andrews
(d) Peterson
Answer: Polak
In which of the sessions, Home Rule Leaguers were able at demonstrate their political strength ?
(a) The Lucknow Session of Congress in 1916
(b) The joint session of the ATTUC and NFTL in Nagpur in 1938
(c) The All India Trade Union Congress held in Bombay in 1920
(d) The first A.U.P. Kisan Sabha in 1918
The first Bengali political drama which presented the story of the brutality of English indigo
planters was
(a) Neel Darpan
(b) Shome Prakash
(c) Rast Goftar
(d) Indian Social Reformer
Who among the following was responsible for the revival of Hinduism in 19th century ?
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Guru Shankaracharya
(d) Swami Dayanand
The main aim of forming the Indian National Congress in its initial stages was
(a) To reduce the military expenditure
(b) To improve the lot of peasants and indigo cultivators
(c) To secure the right of recruitment of Indians in the higher civil services under British
administration
(d) To hold a simultaneous examination in India and England for the ICS
Answer: To secure the right of recruitment of Indians in the higher civil services under British
administration
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place in the city of
(a) Bombay
(b) Hyderabad
(c) Lahore
(d) Amritsar
Answer: Amritsar
Moderates and extremists of the Indian National Congress differed mainly on the issue of
(a) National education
(b) Swaraj
(c) Swadeshi
(d) Boycott
Answer: Swaraj
Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre ?
(a) Lord Hardinage
(b) Lord Irwin
(c) Lord Chelmsford
(d) Lord Curzon
Answer: 43568
The Civil Disobedience Movement was led in the North - West Frontier Province by
(a) Sewa Singh Thikriwala
(b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(c) Shaikh Mohammad Abdullah
(d) Dr. M.A. Ansari
Who among the following was impeached in England for his actions in India ?
(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Lord Wavell
(d) Lord Ripon
Answer: Lahore
Answer: Ahmedabad
When was the monopoly of East India Company in trade brought under the control of the
British Crowns ?
(a) 1784 A.D.
(b) 1813 A.D.
(c) 1793 A.D.
(d) 1773 A.D.
Answer: 1773 A.D.
Answer: 1931
The communal award declared in 1932 by Ramsay Macdonald provided a separate electorate for
the
(a) Sikhs
(b) Anglo- Indians
(c) Muslims
(d) Depressed classes
Answer: Muslims
Who was the head of the Committee formed by the government to enquire into Jallianwala Bagh
massacre ?
(a) General Dyer
(b) None of these
(c) John Simon
(d) Hunter
Answer: Hunter
Answer: 1900-1913
In 1943, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose proclaimed the Independent India (Azad Hind) in
(a) Vienna
(b) Singapore
(c) Rangoon
(d) Tokyo
Answer: Singapore
Answer: Munro
The Great Mutiny of 1857 broke out during the Governor - General ship of
(a) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Canning
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Lord Hardinage
Who among the following worked for the upliftment of depressed classes before independence ?
(a) Ram Manohar Lohia
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) Jagjivan Ram
(d) Bhim rao Ambedkar
Answer: Bombay
Which of the following movements truly reflected the spirit of Hindu - Muslim unity ?
(a) Civil Disobedience Movement
(b) Quit India Movement
(c) Swadeshi Movement
(d) Khilafat Movement
Who played the prominent part in bringing about the Lucknow Pact ?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Motilal Nehru
(d) Lajpat Rai
Answer: Kerala
Answer: 17562
Answer: 1835
To promote the cause of Indian independence Home Rule society, popularly called India House
was established in London by
(a) Hardayal
(b) Shyamji Krishna Varma
(c) Madan Lal Dhingra
(d) V.D. Sarvarkar
The East India Company assumed responsibility for the education of the Indian people by the
Charter Act of
(a) 1774
(b) 1793
(c) None of these
(d) 1758
With how many volunteers did Gandhiji start on his famous Dandi march on March 12, 1930?
(a) 78
(b) 108
(c) 12
(d) 58
Answer: 78
The secret society of revolutionaries which was organised by V.D. Savarkar in 1904 was
(a) Abhinav Bharat
(b) Sandhya
(c) Yugantar
(d) Ghadar
Which of the following statements about Mahatma Gandhi's views on Satyagraha is not correct ?
(a) It is the best weapon of the week against the strong.
(b) It accepts the concept of self- suffering to wean away the evil doer by love and suffering.
(c) It denotes assertion and economic dominance.
(d) It is the exercise of the purest soul force against all types of injustice.
Answer: Gwalior
Who said, Good government was never a good substitute for self government ?
(a) Swami Dayananda
(b) Swami Vivekanand
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(d) Ramakrishna Paramhansa
. The first weekly paper published by the INC (in 1889) was
(a) India
(b) Young India
(c) Voice of India
(d) Indian Opinion
Answer: India
The post and telegraph system in India was introduced during the time of
(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Lord Canning
(c) Lord Hardinage
(d) Lord Dalhousie
The reform movement among the Muslims started by Sir Khan is known as ?? Movement.
(a) Khilafat
(b) Wahabi
(c) Aligarh
(d) Sufi
Answer: Aligarh
During whose Viceroyalty, Queen Victoria was crowned with Kaiser-i-Hind in Delhi Durbar ?
(a) Lytton
(b) Lord Minto
(c) Hastings
(d) Elgin
Answer: Lytton
The Communal Award which was later changed after Mahatma Gandhi's fast unto death in a jail
at Poona, was given by
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Stanley Baldwin
(c) Ramsay Macdonald
(d) Lloyd George
Answer: Allahabad
Gandhiji started Satyagraha in 1919 in protest against
(a) Act of 1909
(b) Salt law
(c) Jallianwala Bagh massacre
(d) Rowlatt Act
When the East India Company came into existence, England was ruled by the
(a) Hanovarians
(b) Tudors
(c) Normans
(d) Stuarts
Answer: Stuarts
The moderate and extremist sections of INC were reunited in the??? session
(a) 1920 Calcutta
(b) 1922 Karachi
(c) 1921 Bombay
(d) 1916 Lucknow
Answer: 1916 Lucknow
Who among the following attended all the Round Table Conferences ?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) B.R. Ambedkar
Which Act was the first legislative interference by the British Parliament in the affairs of India ?
(a) Fox's India Bill, 1783
(b) Pitt's India Act, 1784
(c) The Regulating Act, 1773
(d) The Declaratory Act, 1781
The Congress ministries that had been formed in several provinces in 1937 resigned in
November 1939 in protest against the
(a) British policy of repression
(b) Interference of the Viceroy and the Governors, in administration
(c) Participation of India in the Second World War, without consulting the Indian National
Congress
(d) Refusal of the British government to grant independence to India
Answer; Participation of India in the Second World War, without consulting the Indian National
Congress
Answer: Bombay
Which of the following enactments of British Parliament allowed Indian magistrates to try the
cases of British nationals as well in India ?
(a) Bill of Rights
(b) Pitt's India Act
(c) Ilbert Bill
(d) Rowlatt Act
Answer: 1877
Answer: 1911
When did the Indian National Congress ask for the Dominion Status ?
(a) 1942
(b) 1947
(c) 1908
(d) 1929
Answer: 1908
Who among the following was not the Viceroy of India during the 20th century ?
(a) Lord Minto
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Chelmsford
(d) Lord Irwin
Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of Quit India Movement ?
(a) Lord Mountbatten
(b) Lord Wellington
(c) Lord Wavell
(d) Lord Linlithgow
Bombay Samachar, the first newspaper started in Bombay, was a venture by the
(a) Parsees
(b) Sindhis
(c) Hindus
(d) Gujaratis
Answer: Parsees
Who said : Bengal united is a power. Bengal divided will pull several different ways?.. ?
(a) Hardinge
(b) Risley
(c) Dufferin
(d) Curzon
Answer: Risley
Who among the following was not one of the founders of the Congress Socialist party set up in
1934 ?
(a) P.C. Joshi
(b) Acharya Narendra Dev
(c) Ashok Mehta
(d) Jaya Prakash Narayan
Identify the area where the Santhals proclaimed a government of their own in 1855-56 :
(a) Munger - Bhagalpur
(b) Gaya -Munger
(c) Bhagalpur-Rajmahal
(d) Shahabad- Gaya
Answer: Bhagalpur-Rajmahal
Mahatma Gandhi gave the call to reject foreign goods during the
(a) Civil Disobedience Movement
(b) Non Cooperation Movement
(c) Khilafat Movement
(d) Swadeshi Movements
Who among the following opposed Mahatma Gandhi's association with the Khilafat movement ?
(a) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
(b) Abul Kalam Azad
(c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(d) Fazlul Haquer
Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Second Round Table Conference ?
(a) Clement Attlee
(b) None of these
(c) Neville Chamberlain
(d) Ramsay Macdonald
Who was the Viceroy during the time Mr. Attlee of England declared the British intention to
transfer power to Indians ?
(a) Lord Irwin
(b) Lord Linlithgow
(c) Lord Mountbatten
(d) Lord Wavell
The leader who left politics, retired to Pondicherry and set up an ashram there, was
(a) Aurobindo Ghosh
(b) Bhikaji Cama
(c) Lokmanya Tilak
(d) Bipin Chandra Pal
Answer: Aurobindo Ghosh
The first Satyagraha of Gandhiji for the cause of indigo farmers was observed at
(a) Champaran
(b) Sabarmati
(c) Chauri Chaura
(d) Bardoli
Answer: Champaran
Which of the following was East India Company's most significant parliamentary Act ?
(a) Regulation Act
(b) Rowlatt Act
(c) Charter Act of 1813
(d) Pitts Act
The word Adivasi was used for the first time to refer to the tribal people by
(a) Jyotiba Phule
(b) Thakkar Bappa
(c) B.R. Ambedkar
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Except Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad, the integrationof Indian states was completed in
(a) 18598
(b) 18203
(c) 17380
(d) 17807
Answer: 18203
Answer: 10984
Answer: Delhi
Who among the following was the follower of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy?
(a) Bertrand Russel
(b) Martin Luther
(c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(d) Marshal Tito
In the history of the freedom movement of India, the year 1930 is associated with
(a) Chauri Chaura incident
(b) Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy
(c) Partition of Bengal
(d) Dandi March
Which of the following revolutionary groups was involved in Kakori Conspiracy Case ?
(a) Ghadar Party
(b) Abhinav Bharat Group
(c) Anushilan Samiti
(d) Hindustan Republican Association
The Buddha, the Ramayana and the Mahabharat are three treasures of India. Who said this?
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Who among the following was not the member of the Cabinet Mission which visited India in
1946?
(a) Lord Pethick Lawrence
(b) A.V. Alexander
(c) Sir Stafford Cripps
(d) Lord Mountbatten
Who, amongst the following is associated with the Local Self-Government Act ?
(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) William Bentick
(d) Lord Ripon
When Mahatma Gandhi set out on the Dandi march, he was accompanied, among others, by
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru and Sarojini Naidu
(b) Rajendra Prasad and Sarojini Naidu
(c) Vallabhbhai Patel and Sarojini Naidu
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad
Who said:Cowa rdice and ahimsa do not go together any more than water and fire ?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jayaprakash Narayan
(c) Acharya Narendra Dev
(d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The Barrah dacoity was the first major venture of the revolutionary terrorists of the freedom
movement in
(a) The Madras Presidency
(b) Bombay- Karnataka
(c) Punjab
(d) East Bengal
Answer: East Bengal
Answer: Britain
Answer: Enter the legislature and wreck the government from within
On the death of Gandhiji, who said that The light has gone out of our lives?.?
(a) Dr. S. Radhakrishna
(b) Lord Mountbatten
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Give me blood, I will give you freedom. These words are attributed to
(a) Subhash Bose
(b) Veer Savarkar
(c) Khudi Ram Bose
(d) Bhagat Singh
Answer: Subhash Bose